The Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund has launched the £1.5 million Great Place Scheme, a pilot scheme which is designed to promote a partnership approach to regeneration in Wales.

The funding is for partnerships led by a not-for-profit organisation to work together to consider how to enhance the role of culture and heritage within society and use them to tackle such wide-ranging issues as poverty, inequality, employment, education and health.

The Great Place Scheme will invest in between five and eight places across Wales to achieve the following:

Build on existing partnerships within the heritage and cultural sectors in order to maximise their positive social and economic contribution.

Build new partnerships to realise this contribution and to lever resources into the sector to support that.

Develop partnerships between the heritage sector and place-based initiatives operating in Wales to mutual benefit so that the contribution of the sector and future potential for greater collaboration is recognised in and supported by long-term plans and strategies for the area and communities.

Grants of between £100,000 and £500,000 are available for activity to be delivered over a period of up to three years. Match funding of at least 10% is required.